Jason Vertucio

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January 23, 2012
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Work stuff

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So this is me at work, writing code, ensuring it works, having to test on only one platform … That final bit, it’s my favourite part.

I don’t have to open Firefox, Opera, (shudder) Internet Explorer, to test. One thing. Get the iPad, hit the buttons. Run the tests. Touch the screens. Wham. Bam. Thank you, kind sir.

I am working on something that is simultaneously frustrating and exhilarating. It’s one of my favourite feelings, because it’s both challenging and meaningful. I can be proud of this, even though no one will ever know I had a hand in it. And the only people who care, are other people who do this kind of stuff, so they wouldn’t be as impressed as the people who should be.

Funny, though, putting together decks for an iPad app and playing a gig in front of music-lovers, not that much different to me. I guess it’s because many previous jobs weren’t fulfilling like this one. My last one was almost this good. But even that good thing had come to an end.

I hope this one can last forever.

January 11, 2012
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I made steak!

Last Thursday night, I made steak! It was the first time I actually cooked a big slab of beef in a frying pan, and was a little worried that it might not turn out so great. But luckily, the majority of the steak had a nice, rare, flavourful finish to it.

So here is what I did, and thanks to a couple of websites for helping me make sure I didn’t die of salmonella.

  1. Went to Giant, got the T-bone
  2. Let it marinate in a little soy sauce for like an hour, in the refrigerator
  3. Washed hands
  4. Picked up brother and got coffee
  5. Took steak out for about forty minutes, to get it room temperature (“roomy”)
  6. Washed hands
  7. Turned on the rice cooker, pre-populated with rice four hours ago
  8. Added a lot of salt and pepper, and granulated garlic
  9. Washed hands
  10. Heated up the skillet, added the oil and then the steak
  11. Turned off the rice cooker, added the water I realised I forgot to add earlier, restart rice cooking
  12. Put mixed vegetables in microwave, start cooking
  13. Washed hands
  14. Waited a couple minutes, flipped steak to cook on the other side
  15. Washed hands
  16. Stirred vegetables and continued microwaving
  17. Added butter to the steak
  18. basted the top of the steak with the buttery oily mix
  19. Washed hands
  20. Checked underside of steak, got impatient
  21. Figured it must be done now, threw it on a plate, and went yum
  22. Washed hands
  23. Added vegetables and rice, and ate.

After the entire rice cooking fiasco, I was afraid the steak would be done first. Right when I decided to just stop cooking and eat the steak, the rice cooker made the little springy-popping noise saying I’M DONE YOU CAN EAT MY GRAINY GOODNESS NOW.

Here are some before, during, and after photos:

I like my steak with a nice warm, pink centre. I’ll have to keep it on longer next time, to get it right.

January 5, 2012
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An online guitar Tuner!

So my friend Jamie found me this. I wanted to tune my guitar and she told me to go online. So I went online, AND I FOUND THIS!!! The helpful people at JamPlay have obviously and totally branded the entire thing so you know where it came from. So, enjoy!

January 3, 2012
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Me and bgStretcher.js

Hey. Today I figured out a problem I was having with one site. Just had to hack a JavaScript file to allow more parameters. Once that was done I was golden.

Funny how the easiest thing to do was the last option I explored.

I should go into more detail. But I think I will in the morning. It’s midnight.

December 27, 2011
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How to create a successful Twitter account in three easy steps

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Want to have a successful Twitter account? Follow these simple rules:

  1. Choose your favourite hobby. This will be your Twitter account’s topic. Example: deep frying.
  2. Create an account, with your username having your topic/theme and the word hulk. Example: @deepfriedhulk
  3. Write your tweets in all caps, and in the third person. As the Hulk. Example: HULK HATE DEEP FRIED BACON! MAKES HULK’S TUMMY ACHE!

Using these steps as a guideline, you will be well on your way to 100+ followers in no time! Bonus points if you can find or make a picture of the Hulk deep frying bacon as your profile picture!

(Sent from my iPhone)

December 12, 2011
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today

so today’s to-do list includes:

  1. new colour scheme for a client website
  2. misfits
  3. mobile sites to demo abilities
  4. sulk
  5. hopefully hear back from another client about wordpress help
  6. play with cat
  7. drink coffee
  8. dinner with entire family

November 15, 2011
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Well look who’s as pleased as fruit punch

OK so I’ve been spending some time today adding one of those “FIND A STORE” locators to a website. And with a little direction, I came up with something that works. For now.

I guess tomorrow I’ll get the front-end part done. Once I get the MySQL password information.

November 7, 2011
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So, Daylight Savings Time

So here’s the thing.

If you know me, you probably are tired of me saying this every single year. One night, I stayed up until almost three in the morning because I had nothing better to do that Sunday, and I wanted to see what’s going on in TV-Land. Some cable station was showing the old Superman show from the 1960′s. And I thought, well, this’ll be fun. I’ll just watch it at 1am, and then when the clocks fall back, I can watch it again!

I guess I should announce two things right now. 1) I was young and stupid. 2) Daylight Savings Time was ending.

So I watched the episode. It was nothing spectacular to me, because I grew up with Christopher Reeve beating up General Zod, and Dean Cainwooing Teri Hatcher while stopping the guy from the Jeffersons. But I was excited to see it again, because — as everyone knows — the Fall Back from DST happens promptly at 2am.

So 2am came and it was some other show. Some sitcom from the 70′s about a radio station, I think. I got mad and complained to the TV. It didn’t listen. I flipped stations, looked for something else, got bored, and then fell asleep.

So, basically, if there is anything I can offer to you, the public at large, who are curious about TV schedules during the DST changes, don’t be. Because nothing happens.

Although I suppose it’s a great way to get you ready for the new times, so you’re not up at 4am and in bed at 7pm.

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